Parks and Recreation

Wednesday the weather was beautiful so we decided to enjoy some of the outdoors. We began with a walk around Kensington Gardens. We stopped by Kensington Palace, the birthplace of Queen Victoria. We stopped my the Serpentine and visited the statue of Peter Pan. We took a quick trip on the Tube to Greenpark and walked to Buckingham Palace, there was a large crowd but nothing too exciting going on, I suspect the royal family was having lunch or something pretty pedestrian. It was still pretty early so we took a walk around St. James' Park (my favorite so far.) When we reached the far end we saw and interesting building and decided to investigate. It turned out the be the Household Calvary museum. In the attempt to take pictures, my sister was almost trampled twice by the Calvaryman on foot (who we lovingly named "chop-chop") We then went on to Trafalgar Square, but decided to leave the National Portrait Gallery for another day. We took the Tube back to Earl's Court and had a pint and some dinner at the Blackbird, our corner pub, which surprisingly offered a vegetarian shepherds pie (American Airlines can learn a thing or two from them.)